Dotfiles

Pulling dotfiles into local machine

1. alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
2. git clone --bare <dotfiles-repo-url> $HOME/dotfiles
3. alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' if it's not done already.
4. config checkout

config checkout might fail with the following message:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
    .bashrc
    .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git. The solution is simple: back up the files if you care about them, remove them if you don't care. I provide you with a possible rough shortcut to move all the offending files automatically to a backup folder:

mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}

5. Set showUntrackedFiles to no with config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Used this tutorial --> https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles